Prenatal famine and genetic variation are independently and additively associated with dna methylation at regulatory loci within IGF2/H19

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Tobi, Elmar W ^a   Slagboom, P Eline ^a   van Dongen, Jenny ^a,b   Kremer, Dennis ^a   Stein, Aryeh D ^c   Putter, Hein ^a   Heijmans, Bastiaan T ^a   Lumey, L H ^d  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SOMATOMEDIN B; IGF2 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFERENTIALLY METHYLATED REGION; DNA METHYLATION; DNA STRUCTURE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; GENE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUNGER; INSULIN LIKE GROWTH FACTOR 2 GENE; MALE; NETHERLANDS; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PROMOTER REGION; SIBLING; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; GENOME IMPRINTING; MATERNAL NUTRITION; MIDDLE AGED; PREGNANCY; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; STARVATION;

DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FEMALE; GENETIC LOCI; GENOMIC IMPRINTING; HUMANS; INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR II; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SIBLINGS; STARVATION;

EID: 84861605111     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0037933     Document Type: Article

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